Comedian Jon Stewart states “The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom”. In the chapter “Public Thinking” from the book Smarter Than You Think, Clive Thompson addresses the topic of modern day technology, and argues that the internet is an effective and useful tool which positively impacts the way people think. Thompson is a contributing writer for The New York Times and Wired Magazine, as well as author of the book Smarter Than You Think with degrees in Political Science and English. He supports this claim by referring to Ory Okolloh, a law student and blogger about Kenyan politics and corruption, and describing her positive experience with the internet. He then refers to the “audience effect” which can clarify the mind and change one’s performance.
Did you know Kevin Gates was arrested at the age of 13 for joy riding as a passenger. In this essay I will tell you about Kevin Gates 's background, accomplishments, and his inspirer.i think Kevin Gates is a good rapper with a great personality and says what 's one his mind and doesn 't care what people think about him. Kevin Gate 's background was rough he was arrested almost six times. When Kevin Gates was arrested he had to spend thirty-one months but got out in six months for good behaver. Kevin Gates got arrested again in 2015 for kicking a women in the face for grabbing his pant leg while he was singing on stage and was sentenced 180 days in jail because the girl was trying to get his attention for her friend and pulled his pant leg
He gives the example of how complex his computer is and how he loves new complex computers yet all he uses it for is to write articles and the process he goes through to write those articles. The second topic is that guys like a really pointless challenge. He gives the example of his coworkers talking about how fast they could run the forty-yard dash. He explains
In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid,” Nicholas Carr talks about whether or not modern day technology is making us lazier. He starts out with a popular scene from Stanley Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey which is a conversation between a computer and a man named Dave. The computer is saying that its mind is going and that its artificial brain is malfunctioning. This eye catcher shows us how much we actually interact with computer technology now days is what they predicted so long ago the future would be like.
Over the the years, more and more people have become heavily dependent on technology to get us through our day. A reason for that is because technology has been rapidly advancing. For example, back in the day people used pagers, dvr’s, and typewriters. Now we have 3D televisions, computers, game systems, social media, search engines, and smartphones that come out every year. In Nicholas Carr’s article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days year fails to make his family rich”(Gladwell 249). In Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell shows that many factors come into play when looking at successful people. He shows that a series of luck, work ethic, and persistence can lead to success. When looking at people like Bill Gates and Bill Joy, Gladwell shows how these factors came into play in their early lives and allowed them to build their opportunity to become successful. Gates and Joy worked hard at what they were passionate about and ended up creating two major technological companies.
II. Credibility Statement: By the use of research tools and time, I have been able to bring the true history of Monopoly to light. III. Relating to the Audience:
Introduction Today i am going to tell you about bill gate and the thing i am going to tell you about bill gate is early life, accomplishment, and later life you will probably find some interesting stuff about bill gate to. Early Life Bill Gate was born on October 28 1955,he also graduated from LakeSide school in 1973 and Bill Gate served as a congressional Page. On October 28 1955 Bill Gate was born and the place where he was born in Seattle, WA, and then he went to a school call The LakeSide School and he graduated in 1973 also what he did in school is like do some computer things like see if it works or make one like that, also in the early 1973 Bill Gate served as a Congressional page in the U.S. house of representative. Accomplishment
Great Storytelling Lu Jia Delivered on a campus in California to an audience of a few thousands, yet it ended up inspiring tens of millions from both U.S. and worldwide; worshiped by Silicon Valley as the ultimate career talk, yet it embodied many aspects of life - chance, love, loss, and ultimately death. Short but smart, targeted yet universal, poignant and timeless – thus is Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement address at Stanford. Some attribute its success to Jobs’ personal influence and charisma – they do add significant weight to the speech, undeniably. But close inspections from the lenses of rhetorical analysis allow us to appreciate this speech from a different perspective – in particular, how the speech was crafted into a fitting response to its rhetorical situation and how Jobs managed to strike a chord with his audience through the masterful use of logos, pathos and ethos, whether planned or not.
The Entrepreneur I chose was Chad Hurley, Hurley is best known for co-founding YouTube and former CEO of the video sharing website YouTube.com. My paper is about how online video content has impacted the traditional media market and how Chad Hurley changed the style of media forever. Hurley co-founded YouTube alongside two other co-founders Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005 when they were just early PayPal employees, not long after sold YouTube for $1.65 billion dollars to google. Chad Meredith Hurley was born January 24, 1997 in Birdsboror Pennsylvania. Hurley attended Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he received his bachelor’s degree in fine art.
Why should you attend SJSU? By-Subbie kaur Topic: Why should you attend SJSU General Purpose- To provide my audience with facts and information about SJSU that will motivate them to attend SJSU.
Bill and Melinda Gates, a very wealthy couple who owns microsoft, have found a generous and helpful way to give back to poor and impoverished third world nations. They created the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to “ give back to society” (Bill Gates). Why did they decide to help these struggling countries in need and how did they start? Well I the interview with Chris Anderson they stated they wanted to see that all people had equal chances. To have a sporting chance they believed that people needed education, and took a deeper look in what was not being provided that stable countries were giving their citizens and was hindering the third world countries.
These are all the areas where Robbins can improve on, to further deliver exceptional presentations for his audience. In conclusion, Tony Robbins’ TED talk at TED2006 is presented persuasively and excellently. He has delivered it in an expressive way with so much passion that persuades the audience. Although there are areas that he needs to improve on, his confidence and strong communications skills has allowed him to deliver a high-quality presentation.
Have you heard of the quote “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on”? Most would have not, but you most definitely heard of the name Barack Obama.
In the speech “Steve Jobs Commencement Address to Stanford University, Class of 2005” , Apple CEO Steve Jobs provides his audience with personal experiences and the rough periods he went through in his early years before founding apple that helped him succeed. With the use of his stories Jobs creates a character that prevails through obstacles and manages to achieve his goals, which inspires his audience to look up to him and show that failure is sometimes necessary to succeed. At the beginning of his speech, Steve Jobs begins describing his life with a series of stories that helped him reach his success, this helps Jobs create ethos because his audience will understand the hardships he went through to be where he is today, instead of just thinking of Jobs as the founder of Apple and not really knowing about the struggles he had to go through.
